Vehicle-lamp.



. J. K. PUNDBRFORD.

VEHICLE LAMP.

APPLICATION IILBD APR. 19, 1909.

Patented June 22, 1909.

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J. K. PUNDERFORD.

VEHIGLE LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, 1009.

, Patented June 22, 1909.

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' upper end of the arni 5 is :1 disk 5.

shown for temporarily suppression the :H'lloll rited in the claims.

- arm 5 in a variety of Wu tending to turn the disk. cured to the arm 11 of it hell-crank 1' .e Wavy" IT;

vEfilcLE LAMP.

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented Jun e 22, 1 909.

Application filed April 19, 1909. Serial 290,951.

To all whom 'it may conrern:

Be it known that I, JOE-1n K. Pun'nnnronn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the count of New Haven and 1 State of Connecticut, have invented a new 1 and useful Improvement in l' ehicle l amps; and I do hereby declare the lollowing, when taken in connection with the nreoinpnnying drawings and the nuinerels of reference marked thereon, to be a, lull, rlenr, and 0X l not description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a front view of e hnnp having means for tenipornrily suppressing the action of the reflector and shown in an operative position. Fig. 2 a side View partially in seetion of the same. Fig. 3 it broken inside view showing the disk in its retired position. Fig. 4. a front view of the bell-crank lever for turning thedisk nrin shown on an enlarged scale.

This invention relates to an improvement in vehicle lamps, :ind particularly of the searchdight type. and ll nimlitiention oi' the invention shown and doserihed hy the application filed by me January 18, 1909, No. 472,896, In that application :henns were of the reflector; and the object ol thiv inventlon is another form of device for the shim purpose in which the disk is swung into position between the burner and XUllfllflll and the invention consists in the nonslrueiion hereinafter described and mrtirulnrly re- The invention is applied to :1. vehicle lump of the search light type of usual eonstrnrtim comprising n easing reflector 3 and burner 4. Mounted in the (using in rein of the burner is n curved arm 5 and hing d to the it is Uppnrent that the disk is we be hinged to the herein shown the arm 5 provided with n spindle which )esses througlrlugs 8 formed as pin-i of l)l'tt0l(ll S) whiirh is riveted to the disk. (in this pin is it spiral sprint: ll) one end of whirh isxconneeted with the spindle and lhootheif' end bearing on the bracket or on the disk and The arm 5 is solever which is mounted on a pivot 12, the other arm 13 of which extends outside the casing l and it. adapted to be connected with any suit able inen-ns hy which it may he turned from it: any. convenient point in the vehicle. At one side the disk is provided with at small Jller ll mounted in a lnnekct 15 secured to the disk for the purpose {LS will hereinafter up peer. i

llhen thrown into operative position [l8 shown in Figs. 1 and .2 ol" the drawings, the disk 6 stands in rear ol' the hurnrr and in line with the center of the reflector so us to nornrily suppress the an: ion of the reflector. lo reti e it, the hell-enrol; lever will he turned which throws the arm 5 to one side, end as the disk strikes the edge of the nursing, it will turn on the arm 5 ztt substantially right angles and lie elose ngninst the side ol 7 the casing :is shown in broken lines in .l ig. l, and as shown in full lines in Fig. 3. in this movement the ro 'or '1 will strike the edge of the (raising nnd assist in causing the disk to turn, noting, as it were, as on anti-friction roller.

in whirl-i illll'lllb ol this type which are provided with means to temporarily suppress notion of the roller-tor, the \lCVli s used to; this purpose must when ired, he so so eonreiiled us not to rest on slnnlow; end in the omxsirnrtion onloro h-s 'iil t(l, when the it is on. oi line with the r-enosing. This dev' .e is extremely simple :ind only in. readily applied lo lumps in use, and doL-s not in on) we illf ll'llil tron; the uppenrnnc' t ol the hnno, nor is i! visihle l'roni the outsidr-v .l cluinit l. iznnn, the eonihiimiion with e. hur n- 1'ellr 'toi',ol'nn ili'illl lvlllllll l' eon nertrd with the tamlllg, und n dish hing-3d to the upper end ol' lid nrni nnd adopted to he turned into position hetween the burner and ridlrrtor.

l. in u. lnni the eonihinnlion with :1 burner nnd roller-tor, ol :i hell-rinnk lover mounted in the nosing, n curred :ii'ni secured. to one arm oi the ln'-ll-rrunk lever; nnd n disk hinged to the upperend of said :irni nnd adopted to be turned against the inside of turn the disk on said arm, and a m 161' con- In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

burner sud geflect-or, of a curved arm pivot? ally mounted in the casing, a disk hinged 00 Lbs upper 'end of the said arm, a 5 ring to J. K. PUNDERFORD.

Witnesses:

FREDERIC C. EABLE, CLARA L. WEED.

nested with one edge of the said disk and adapted m engage wlth the slde of the casmg was}, $73.5 cask 1s refined. 

